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Le Tour de Langkawi

Since the first event back in 1996, Le Tour de Langkawi has grown to become the largest cycling competition in Malaysia and is now proud to be recognised as Asia’s biggest race. It is named after Langkawi, as this is where the original race started and finished, however, it now includes several lovely destinations across the country.

Le Tour de Langkawi was the brain child of Malaysia’s Prime Minister, and it is organised by the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Malaysian National Cycling Federation. Every year in March or April, more than 100 riders from over 20 teams from all around the globe flock to Malaysia to take part. The exciting race consists of eight stages across 1,240KM, beginning in Kuala Lumpur. Cyclists then make their way along the scenic west coast of Peninsula Malaysia, with the final two stages occurring on Langkawi’s main island, ending in Kuah.

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Simon Carr (EF Education-EasyPost) won the queen stage 5 at the Tour de Langkawi after dropping teammate Jefferson Alexander Cepeda 4km from the line in Genting Highlands following a complete domination of the final climb by the American team. 

Carr and Cepeda finished 1-2 on the stage and moved into the top two spots on GC, with the Brit taking a 49-second lead over his Ecuadorian teammate going into the final three stages. 

This is Carr’s third win of the season, but clearly a much more important one as the 25-year-old Brit dedicated the victory to his late grandfather after the stage.

“For me, it means a lot, not just because of this race but also actually I was really, really motivated to win today,” said Carr. “My grandfather passed away just last Monday and he was a big fan so I really wanted to win this for him.”

Carr praised his teammates after they ensured the break didn’t get away and set a brutal enough pace on the final climb to shred the entire group, highlighting their prominence as the strongest climbing team at the race.

“It was an amazing job by the whole team, taking it on. I’m just really, really happy to finish it off,” said Carr. “It was already pretty hard. We set a hard pace from the start of the climb. 

“With Tom [Scully] already chasing the break and Michael [Valgren] and Odd [Christian Eiking] and then Jardi [Christiaan van der Lee], our stagiere, they did a really good job."

Cepeda had attacked first, making Carr's acceleration to chase his teammate curious, but the Brit explained the move and clearly didn't want to waste strong legs.

“When Alexander [Cepeda] went it was really the right time. I could immediately tell no one else had anything left so I came across [to Alexander] but I think we played it really, really well.”

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James Moultrie is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a News Writer in 2023 after originally contributing as a freelancer for eight months, during which time he also wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Cycling Weekly. Prior to joining the team he reported on races such as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout van Aert. Outside of cycling, he spends the majority of his time watching other sports – rugby, football, cricket, and American Football to name a few.

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Bike racing is not just about the Tour de France, Paris–Roubaix and world championships. Also of great importance to the sport’s fabric are distant races like the Tour de Langkawi, which started Wednesday and continues with eight stages through next Wednesday. Now in its 23rd year, the Malaysian stage race—named after the island of Langkawi where it originated—has contributed to the expansion of cycling in southeast Asia, helped with the development of riders and teams from all over the world, and given Western racers a different perspective of their sport.

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One of the most important aspects of “new” races such as Langkawi is bringing publicity to a country and its tourist attractions by showing off its scenery, culture and facilities. That’s why the globalization of cycling has been a priority for the Union Cycliste Internationale for the past two decades. That was something that Irish race promoter Pat McQuaid understood well before he became the UCI president in 2005.

“Cycling is a sport that is one of the best to portray countryside from the tourism point of view,” McQuaid said, “and the Tour de France is the best example of it. So I think a lot of countries are opening up to that view. I remember well Dr. Mahathir, the prime minister of Malaysia back in the early ’90s; he wanted a Tour de France in Malaysia [which led to the Tour de Langkawi] for the very same tourism reasons. I think that in all the countries I visit, the ministers tell me there’s a huge potential for our sport in their country.”

This year, several sports events in Malaysia have had to be postponed or given vastly reduced budgets because the country is hosting the South East Asian Games in August. But the Minister of Youth & Sports said when announcing a smaller budget for the race: “Seeing the popularity of the Tour de Langkawi and its importance as a sports tourism event for the nation, we decided it has to continue….”

Besides the positive effects on a county like Malaysia hosting a major international race, many of the teams get great benefit from competing in a new country. That was the case in the early years of the Tour de Langkawi, when the world’s No. 1-ranked team, Mapei, was a regular starter. After the fourth edition of the race, Giorgio Squinzi, the CEO of Mapei, a building industry products manufacturer, told Italian-based journalist Stephen Farrand: “Cycling is ideal for Mapei because we can get worldwide exposure with just one sport. For example, we recently had a team at the Tour de Langkawi. It’s only a small race on the international calendar, but it was very important for Mapei, because we have factories there, and the Malaysian and southeast Asian markets are important for our products. The race receives a lot of local media attention so we always send a good team.”

Similarly, former American pro cyclist Craig Lewis told me a couple of years ago about the benefits of racing in new countries: “It’s great for the growth of the sport. China could be the next world power…so they need to have riders in big races and get that support from the fans. And it’s happening in smaller countries too. In Malaysia, they love cycling; they’ve had the Tour de Langkawi for a long time. And we’ve taken a couple of Malaysians into our team and brought them to Europe…. It’s just gonna continue from there. There’s no reason for cycling to be locked up in Europe.”

Other riders see other benefits. Team Sky’s Ian Boswell has blossomed since 2015, when he said that among his bigger goals that year were the Tour de Langkawi, where he placed 10th overall, and the Amgen Tour of California, where his improved climbing strength saw him take seventh overall. “Reaching the performance goals, training, recovering, preparing for a race and racing…that’s helped me to always have something to work for,” he said.

Lasting eight days instead of the traditional 10, the most decisive stage of this week’s Langkawi is on Day 4, with a finish at Cameron Highlands. It starts on the coast at Seri Manjung and heads east, with gradual climbing in the last third of the 174.4-kilometer stage—with the Cat. 1 Ringlet climb coming with 15 kilometers to go, and the Hors-Cat Tanah Rata climb climb at the finish in Cameron Highlands at an elevation of 1,412 meters (4,632 feet).

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Stage 2 sees riders revisiting the iconic Drawbridge, this time as the ceremonial start venue, for another day of hard riding for almost 200km. The stage is a mostly flat stage, with rolling sections throughout, and both the days’ climbs are designated Category 4’s. The route once again avoids the coastal roads and should provide riders with cooler conditions inland. A breakaway continues to be likely, and the last 50km provides ample opportunity for the sprinter lead out trains to rein in any aspiring stage winners in the breakaway. A technical finish with two wide corners in the final kilometre means that riders will have to keep focused all the way to the end at Kota Bharu.

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Sprint | dungun (36.2 km), sprint | ajil (142 km), sprint | tok jamal (165.9 km), points at finish, kom sprint (4) jerangau (95.9 km), kom sprint (4) sekayu (113.3 km), team day classification, race information.

• Date: 23 September 2023
• Start time: 11:15 (05:15 CET)
• Avg. speed winner: 42.302 km/h
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
• Distance: 187.4 km
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• ProfileScore: 11
• Vert. meters: 1071
• Departure: Kerteh
• Arrival: Kuala Terengganu
• Race ranking: 167
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• Won how: Sprint of large group
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